The former Democratic National Committee chairman leads with 46 percent of the vote to Cuccinelli’s 41 percent, with the rest being undecided, according to the Public Policy Polling poll of the high profile race.

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PPP notes that Cuccinelli trumps McAuliffe with name recognition in the state — nearly three-quarters of those polled are familiar with him, compared with about half who are familiar with McAuliffe.

Cuccinelli has a low favorability rating of just 29 percent with 45 percent unfavorablity and the rest unsure. Meanwhile, voters are still undecided about McAuliffe, who has a 25 percent favorability, 26 unfavorability and the rest unsure.

The PPP poll included 602 Virginia voters between Jan. 4 and Jan. 6 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

OTOH, this is a Clintonite, isn't it ? Beware of every possible voter fraud potential. Think Allen West and what went on in that election.R'smay never win again, if the voting system isn't some way gaurenteed to be pure.

Virginia is known be fairly moderate state, it never does elects extremist on either sides.

But holy cow, Ken whatshisface is like a terrorist in the peaceful state, he makes Tea Party look like good people! Every person in Virginia (my home state) I've talked to say they were fooled in voting for him and never again, even Republicans are disgusted with Cuccinelli who is known to take his bigotry, women hatred, corruption to a new level never seen before by any extremist group. For the sake of mankind I pray the guy never holds a public office again, its like putting a terrorist in power.

Same goes for Governor Ultrasound Bob, who ran promising Jobs as his main goal during 2010, but turned out to another silent but deadly kind of corrupted lunatic.

Time Virginia threw these crazies out, they are making GOP look even worse.

Good point, Sandi. If Cuccinelli is elected, it's possible that welfare would be eliminated and then who would vote for the Dems? If there were fewer loafers and moochers, the Dems would be in big trouble indeed.

Go Cooch! It's an uphill battle for him though. Both McAuliffe and Cuccinelli are equally extreme compared to Virginia's political center. Virginia is one of the fastest growing, welathiest, most economically vibrant states in the whole country because of the conservative leadership exhibited by fiscally prudent Republican and Democratic governors alike. Both of the men running are very ideological compared to Virginia's usual taste, but McAuliffe would take the state back decades. The regulation and taxation we would see in a McAuliffe administration would destroy everything that Virginia's bipartisan series of pragmatic, fiscally responsible governors have worked so hard to build. The state that consistently rakes #1 for business and just as high in quality of life will go down the gutter fast as McAuliffe tries to turn it into another rustbelt-style progressive wasteland with high costs of living and stagnant growth rates. I think Ken Cuccinelli is a good, honorable man. He's not my top choice for governor. But he's the only viable option standing between McAuliffe and the governor's mansion. So go Ken go, Virginia needs you!

During June, 2011, the Koch Brothers ordered Virginia Attorney General to fly to Colorado to instruct him as to his political positions. The national media will not be able to keep this story quiet once the Virginia election heats up.